Did you know …
That pilgrims’ famous buckle hats were buckled for a reason? It’s true!
Apocryphal histories would have you believe that the pilgrims wore their dark, buckle-hatted outfits for reasons of religious modesty and piety. Not so! The “original pilgrims” at Plymouth were unlikely to have worn these costumes at all—they were more into standard old-timey farmer stuff. Buckle hats, etc, were more favored by a later group, who split apart from earlier groups due to differences in religious beliefs. The new group believed that God & Jesus liked nothing more than for one to smack oneself in the head with a brick (or probably a brick-sized rock in those days). These zealots were so into self-head-smashing that many took to wearing buckled hats to keep their cracked up brainboxes together. Gross!
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